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  • 29/09/2025 Fishing Report by Andy Savage on Sea Urchin IIl (Whitby, North Yorkshire)

    29 Sep 2025 by Andy Savage

    Report on-board Sea Urchin IIl

    The last two days have seen complete contrasts in the fishing aboard Sea Urchin. We are back in Neap tides again, so wrecking was the order of the two days.

    On Sunday I had a group of regular anglers aboard and as I quite often do at this time of year, we headed south to try a few of the inshore wrecks in the 3-5 mile stream, which have served us well over previous autumn’s.
    After an hours run we stopped at our first wreck and three drifts later with only a small Ling and a few Pouting, we pushed on. We spent the rest of the day wreck hopping.

    We caught fish on all of them, but the sport was painfully slow. Muppet traces baited with squid and mackerel did find a few Ling to 8lb, but we only landed two Codling all day. I was really disappointed as I’m sure the lads were. With that in mind, in decided that today we would run out a bit further and try an offshore wreck. After collecting a few Mackerel we ran south again and arrived mid morning with the flood tide running nicely.

    I set the first drift up and I like to watch the initial progress of the boat to check the drift line. I came on deck after a couple of minutes and six rods were already playing fish!! We landed twelve fish in total the first drift and I breathed a massive sigh of relief…..

    I put myself under a lot of pressure to deliver a decent day and it’s been very hard this summer. Today however; everything went really well for a change. We had a frantic first hour with 6-10 fish a drift with a good mix of Codling and Ling. We had five double figure Ling with four of them between 12-13lb and loads of Codling between 3-4lb which were all pristine bright white fish. Everyone got stuck in and it was a struggle for me to keep up with the net at times.

    Sport did slow down after dinner once the Ebb tide pushed through, but by then, we had already done the damage. Definitely the most prolific day for some time. Once again, a massive thank you to the lads for the support. Everyone was excellent company over both days.

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    Wed 01/10/2025
    1 Space Available Wrecking Trip - 4.13m Ben Cope - x 2 Derek Coulson - x 3 Andy Burrell - x 1 Mark Parry - x 1 Richard Gotts - x 1 Richard Brockwell - x 1
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    Tue 04/11/2025
    2 Spaces Available Uptiding Trip - 5.57m Dave & Del - x 2 Ian Scrivens - x 1 Andy Lammas - x 1 Dave Fowls - x 1 Richard Gotts - x 1
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    Sun 09/11/2025
    1 Space Available Uptiding Trip - 5.60m Jimmy Yeung - x 1 Jamie Ping - x 1 Jason Shields - x 1 Liam Dawson - x 4
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    Tue 11/11/2025
    6 Spaces Available Uptiding Trip - 4.93m Will sail with 4 anglers. Stan Matthews - x 1 John Cross - x 1
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    Wed 12/11/2025
    1 Space Available Wrecking Trip - 4.66m Peter Burton - x 1 John Cross - x 1 Steve Mason - x 1 Annie - x 3 Craig Isbell - x 3
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    Thu 13/11/2025
    6 Spaces Available Wrecking Trip - 4.54m John Cross - x 1 John Weetman - x 1 Fran Schaap - x 2
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    Fri 14/11/2025
    4 Spaces Available Wrecking Trip - 4.58m John Cross - x 1 Steve Mason - x 1 John Atkinson - x 2 Fran Schaap - x 2
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    Sun 16/11/2025
    2 Spaces Available Uptiding Trip - 4.96m Arthur French - x 3 John Cross - x 1 Steve & Ryan - x 2
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    Mon 17/11/2025
    3 Spaces Available Uptiding Trip - 5.09m Arthur French - x 3 Sam Robinson - x 1 John Cross - x 1
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    Tue 18/11/2025
    4 Spaces Available Uptiding Trip - 5.19m Arthur French - x 3 John Cross - x 1
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